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TUSC Fitness Program offers free fitness classes to undergraduate students
By Elizabeth Zacks | March 14Want to workout but don’t want to pay for expensive classes or trek to the gym?
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Columns
Kate in Paris: In spring
By Kate Seklir | March 14I know the same cannot be said for Medford, where the weather within the past week has fluctuated between 60 degrees and sunny and 30 degrees and snowy, but spring seems to be drawing imminently closer in Paris. While spring does not officially begin until March 20 this year — the day on which the sun will be directly over the equator as it moves into the Northern Hemisphere — the past week has given a taste of what the season is sure to bring here in Paris. Afternoons spent strolling public gardens and people-watching from cafes seem to be in my future.
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Tufts students express disappointment by university response to war in Ukraine
By Miriam Vodosek and Lars Kirchhoff | March 11“Tufts, speak up! Stop the war!” chanted acrowd of Tufts students, faculty and other community members during a rally at Mayer Campus Center last Wednesday, March 2. They gathered to show their support for Ukraine and to express their disappointment in the Tufts administration’s response to the war, hoping to prompt action.
Columns
Kolumn: What’s more needed than ‘protecting ourselves’
By Koloris Wu | March 11Content warning: This column discusses human trafficking.
Features
From SMFA Affirmations to Tufts Ice Cream, student-run Instagram accounts shake up Tufts’ online presence
By Kaitlyn Wells | March 10Tufts inhabits a variety of online spaces, and Instagram is one that represents a motley of cultural life, coming in the form of student-run accounts that are not affiliated with Tufts as an institution. These social media accounts are often anonymous and sustained by contributions from a community of users.
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Potty Talk: Not-so-Fresh at Carmichael
By David Wingens | March 10As I havealready discussedthis semester, Fresh at Carmichael’s Tuesday special — cauliflower gratin — is likely to be the single most common cause of bathroom use at Tufts. This fact alone makes the Carm bathrooms some of the most important restrooms on campus.
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Building Audacity addresses food injustice through youth-led initiatives
By Priya Padhye | March 9Each Saturday at 9 a.m., while their peers on campus largely remain asleep, a group of Tufts students package and distribute food to about 90 to 170 families. This is one part of Building Audacity’s expansive food justice work, which runs in parallel with the organization’s other programs that address the intersectional needs of the communities it serves.
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Talking Transit: Americans will pay more for gas, but will they ride the bus?
By Chris Duncan | March 9Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is having worldwide consequences.
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The expansion of Tufts’ undergraduate enrollment, Part 2: How big is too big for Tufts?
By Mark Choi | March 8Editor's note: This is the second of a two-part series on the expansion of Tufts' undergraduate enrollment. Read the first part here.
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Maker’s Space: The importance of innovation
By Ulee Wintle | March 8This week, I’d like to talk about an amazing craftsman I met this morning while at an arts festival. His name is Tim Robison.
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The expansion of Tufts’ undergraduate enrollment, Part 1: A bigger Tufts is the new normal
By Mark Choi | March 7Editor's note: This is the first of a two-part series on the expansion of Tufts' undergraduate enrollment. Read the second part here.
Columns
In Pursuit of Eggcellence: Trial Two — The Great Poaching
By Julia Appel | March 7The soft-boiled egg is a master of suspense. You’ve boiled your water, you’ve followed the demanding beeps of your phone’s alarm to perfection and finally you simply hold the egg in your hands (not really, because 'ouch,' 'hot,' etc.) and wonder. There is no way of knowing what lies beneath the surface, what lurks below the inscrutable face of the eggshell. To crack the shell is a leap of faith. But every faith can be tested, and even the most devoted have their breaking point. Today, I’m skipping the suspense.
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Tufts magicians spread joy in a world of uncertainty
By Sam Dieringer | March 4Amidst the tall bookshelves and hidden study rooms of Tisch Library, a world of spectacle and wonderful delights awaits.
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Innocent Pleasures: Dancing’s not a crime
By JoJo Lee | March 4Stemming from my New Year’s resolution to practice more empathy and, partly inspired by the protagonist of Elaine Hsieh Chou’s “Disorientation” (2022) — who abstains from the act because “She [i]sn’t a Republican!”— is my intent to stop kink-shaming. Regardless of your political affiliation, I hope this column can convince you to join me in this endeavor. My broader aim, though, is twofold: one, to dismantle the concept of “guilty pleasures” and explore why we shouldn't be ashamed of the things that bring us joy and to advocate for the small and oft overlooked innocent pleasures that can add light to our lives if we know to let them.
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Potty Talk: Potties of a far-off land
By David Wingens | March 3Potty Talk: Potties of a far off land
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Resource Generation workshops encourage students to think critically about wealth inequality
By Emma Bittar | March 2It’s no secret that Tufts has a large population of wealthy students, especially as an elite, private institution. The degree of that wealth, however, is a taboo topic.
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Talking Transit: What the new bus pilot program means
By Chris Duncan | March 2The MBTA blessed us last week with more data on the initial fare-free pilot for the Route 28 bus. The information is outlined in several media outlets, so I will not recount all of it here, but there are a few big takeaways. The first things worth mentioning are the pilot’s successes, because it had some quite notable ones. WBUR reported that the elimination of fares on the Route 28 bus increased ridership by 22%. This number is, furthermore, controlling for increases in ridership following the large initial drop off due to the pandemic, so it is quite impressive. A modest amount of riders — about 5% of those on the bus because it was free — would have driven otherwise. The pilot also helped make bus service fasteras lines to pay fares disappeared and riders could board the bus from either the front or back doors.
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An uneasy path: International students’ job search process in the US
By Tobias Fu | March 1Have you ever considered working abroad? While working in a country where you did not grow up might seem exciting, it can be a challenging process from finding a position to getting to know the work culture.
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Humans of Tufts: Kate Edeburn ‘22
By Sophia Grekin | March 1Sophia Grekin (SG):Do you think that everything happens for a reason?
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The path to service: A look into Tufts' ROTC program
By Isabelle Kaminsky | February 28Who are the students we see on campus in military uniforms? What do they do, and where are they going?
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SMFA courses canceled over low enrollment numbers
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